I disabled Internet Explorer a long time ago and havent needed to use Monkey until now.  After doing a lot of research I found that a lot of other people were  having the same connection error. It's been bugging the **** out of me  so here ya go. You must open up Internet Explorer, not FireFox or Opera Etc.. First see if it connects to the internet. If it does and Monkey still wont connect then I don't know but If IE doesn't connect then this is your problem. Open up Tools then Internet Options. Open Connections. Then open LAN Connections. The only box that should be checked is the Automatically detect settings. Click Apply and close. Refresh IE and see if it connects. If so. Open up Monkey and see if it connects. There ya go.